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snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
Application
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Cecil Gerschwin Palmer | Welcome to Night Vale | Reserved
Name: Fossil
Age: 28
Contact Info:
Other Characters: Alphonse Elric
Character Information
Name: Cecil Gerschwin Palmer
Canon: Welcome to Night Vale
Age: It's never fully established, but late 20s to early 30s
Gender: Male
Canon Point: The Retirement of Pamela Winchell
Background Link: Here
Inventory: One portable microphone set (not working), one cell phone that bleeds but otherwise can make no calls or texts, one photograph of Carlos.
Personality: Cecil is a radio host. Where for most people this might just be a job, it's much more than that for Cecil, it defines who he is. He was predestined to work in Night Vale Community Radio station from a young age, after prophecies were revealed that he would one day become the voice of the town. Far from feeling pushed or forced into this role, he has embraced it and made it a vital part of his identity. No matter where he goes, or how personal the moment is, you can guarantee that Cecil will have his recording equipment on hand to capture it for his listeners. His enthusiasm and energy can't be denied, and he will often treat his listeners or guests in the studio as friends, going off script frequently when events in his life grip him, for example he spent time that should have been dedicated to a story about Condos to asking people for relationship advice.
Aside from his unwavering passion for the radio, Cecil can be a man of extreme contradictions. He seems to genuinely care about the people around him, often offering advice that sometimes even goes against directly forbidden orders from his superiors. This extends to a deep seated love for his town and its community as a whole, which shines through the most clearly when he attempts to rouse the citizens in a rebellion against StrexCorp, and then finally joins in the fight himself in order to overthrow Kevin and retake his radio station. He wants the people of his town to be free, to be safe, and to know that they have a voice they can trust in.
However, on the flip side of this coin, he can also be callous and even cruel. The City Council and Sheriff's Secret Police are often committing murders or other atrocities, and Cecil is vocal about their civic right to do so. He supports the barbaric lottery where random people will be fed to starving wolves ("or how else will they find meat to feed them?"), and he is positively blasé about the number of his interns who either vanish or are killed, to the point of not even noticing what a high mortality rate it is until it's pointed out to him. Many of his reports also deal with disturbing or violent events - such as PTA meetings where teachers are killed, or an experiment to see if he could help his listeners murder a lone driver using the power of their minds - and he deals with these in the same enthusiastic manner as any other report.
He is definitely a product of his environment and the town he grew up in, accepting the strange way of life as solid facts of life. He sees things such as a hatred of the moon and a disbelief in mountains as standard, and will become stubbornly bull-headed about defending these things even when presented with evidence to the contrary. Yet he is not an unintelligent man, despite his assertions that he knows very little, and some of this acceptance may be due to self-preservation. The clearest example of this is regarding the angels, who are all called Erika. It is illegal to acknowledge the existence of angels in Night Vale, and yet Cecil has met and talked with them in the past. It is obvious that he knows they do exist, but he is a good citizen and so he will tell them to their faces that they are not real.
He often walks a fine line between speaking what is allowed and what is necessary, with many of his broadcasts containing deeper meanings or subtle nods to the truth. But at the same time, he does believe a lot of what he is told, and Night Vale seems to have laws of reality that don't match up with the rest of the world. He's a very inclusive man on issues such as identity and species. He is heard to apologise more than once for assuming someone might identify as human, and he has no qualms about accepting a five headed dragon as one of the candidates for the next mayor, even going so far as to describe him in complimentary ways.
Finally, it wouldn't be possible to talk about Cecil without mentioning Carlos. Carlos is one of the few outsiders who lives in Night Vale, a scientist who has come to study all the phenomena that occur within the town, and Cecil fell in love the moment he laid eyes on him. His love has grown and matured from a far-off and idealised adoration, through to a tentative dating, and now a mature relationship. While he has never lost his initial wild feelings for Carlos, still rhapsodising over his words and perfect hair, he no longer wishes for their relationship to be a perfect ideal. He accepts that humans are imperfect, even his wonderful Carlos, and he would rather have a true and imperfect relationship than a perfect dream.
Flavor Abilities: None.
Suitability: Night Vale (Cecil's home town) is basically a horror jamjar most of the time, so he'll probably feel right at home in Snowblind and wonder why everyone else is putting up such a fuss. The only thing he'll miss is not having an actual radio to broadcast through.
RP Samples:
Test drive thread - In the setting, with two separate sub-threads
Smaller test drive thread - For characterisation
ACCEPTED
A two-story A-frame house. The first floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and two bedrooms. The second floor has a master bedroom, master bathroom, and balcony. The couch in the living room has been torn open and some of the foam has been removed. The left bedroom downstairs seems to have belonged to an older teenaged boy. There are discolored spots that indicate a lot of papers must have hung on the wall at one point, but they're gone now.
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Re: ACCEPTED